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Subj: Sky King and Cemetery Stations
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A couple of memories from the distant past:
In the mid 1950's in the UK I had just developed an interest in Radio. I
remember spending many hours trawling the HF bands with a 0-V-0
regenerative receiver. There was one particular transmission which
appeared on many frequencies throughout the HF spectrum. This was an AM
station using a male voice with American accent repeating the same message
over and over for 24/7. The message was:
SKY KING, SKY KING: DO NOT ENTER, DO NOT ENTER: BREAK, BREAK.
Urban legend in the Ham community was that these were the recall stations
for the US SAC bombers at the end of their daily trans-atlantic flights.
A few years later, I guess about 1960, there was a network of stations
which operated in the 80M band using SSB. Urban legend on these stations
held that they were the US silos in West Germany and through some sort of
dark military humour they used the call signs Cemetery 1, Cemetery 2,
Cemetery 3 etc. There were perhaps 20 stations in total and this again was
a 24/7 operation. All stations were male operators with American accents.
The procedure was that in strict numerical sequence, each station asked
for and received a signal report from the next station in sequence. The
highest numbered station then restarted the loop by asking for a report
from Cemetery 1.
Does anyone have real information about these transmissions and where they
originated from ?
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73 - Terry,
Durbanville JF96HD
Cape Town, South Africa
ZSAYJ @ ZS0STB.TBG.WCP.ZAF.AF
zs1ayj@qsl.net
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